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- galahan, on 12/14/2007, -0/+7You certainly are.
The difference is in costs of administration of those databases, along with administration and maintenance of the server infrastructure. And as a plus you can scale your system at any time because it can instantly leverage on all the computing resources they have there. The whole idea behind Amazon's webservices is displacing server costs, which is especially attractive to small and/or growing businesses. - cfuse, on 12/15/2007, -0/+6I must say that I am impressed with Amazon's service offerings, they seem to be one of the few companies doing interesting and useful things in the space.
- strictnein, on 12/14/2007, -0/+5I'm confused why this link is getting buried and why Godlike got so upset over it. To me it's just as informative as the dugg post, but covers things it does not, like pricing, and shows an example query and response.
- symetrix, on 12/15/2007, -0/+5How is this reposting? The author is talking about his *ACTUAL EXPERINCES* with the product, since he was testing it before it was announced (hence the mention of the NDA)
- foobar2001, on 12/14/2007, -8/+11Also see http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2007/12/amazon- ...
- MWeather, on 12/15/2007, -0/+3How is that blog spam? It's original content (AFAIK).
How is this different than a story put out by traditional media outlets? They both have the same business model: generate ad revenue by providing free content. - Davinator, on 12/14/2007, -0/+3http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=34233501 ...
- vicaya, on 12/15/2007, -0/+210GB max table ('domain') size at 10x the price of S3.
I really can't think of a case, where I want to use it instead of something better (including S3). - centinall, on 12/15/2007, -0/+1and in addition to your link to SimpleDB...
there's also EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) and S3 (Simple Storage Service). EC2 to run your applications and S3 to store their data. Now SimpleDB, which btw, is built on top of S3. Amazon is coming up with some serious new ways to deploy and run your web applications.
http://www.amazon.com/b/ref=sc_fe_l_2/002-5472187- ...
http://www.amazon.com/S3-AWS-home-page-Money/b/ref ... - centinall, on 12/15/2007, -0/+1Are there any other companies out there providing similar services as Amazon? The only service that I can think of that's close to this is Google Base, but I don't think it's as functional or even meant for "Enterprise" as this SimpleDB service seems to be targeted for. Perhaps Oracle will also get in this arena soon and provide a similar service. I wonder if SimpleDB is actually running Oracle behind the scenes?
As far as a comparable service to EC2, there's Sun Grid. At $1/CPU-hr vs. $0.10 per GB, I wonder which is the better deal?
I love all of these options that are becoming available.
http://base.google.com/
http://www.sun.com/service/sungrid/index.jsp - Error601, on 12/14/2007, -3/+4That sounds really not interesting. A lot of development effort these days is trying to get off limited databases like this. They were handy back in the day when the cost/performance ratio on hardware was a lot different.
- ekravchenko, on 12/14/2007, -1/+2So how is this better than MySQL or a commercial database product like Oracle? I am confused...
- sodade, on 12/15/2007, -2/+2So it is just hosted DB server clusters? Seems easy enough for any ASP to offer that.
- streak, on 12/15/2007, -1/+1If it's not for hosting people's data, I don't know why Amazon would open it up as a service. You're right about the government not caring about us, though.
- EricTheGrey, on 12/15/2007, -1/+1Heh. If anybody gave me a "humping USB dog" I'd have to hit them.
However, I think I will get my sister that alarm clock. She cannot ever get up on time... :)
I'll have to be prepared to run though...
EtG - strictnein, on 12/15/2007, -1/+1My point was that it's not for his "personal data". As in, data that is only important to him, or data from his personal website.
- strictnein, on 12/15/2007, -1/+1What. The. *****?
- strictnein, on 12/14/2007, -4/+3What? This isn't for hosting your personal data and the government doesn't care about you.
- Godlike, on 12/14/2007, -3/+1Blogspam, maybe? A bit overly dramatic a reply perhaps but it's really annoying. SUBMIT A STORY.
- FelixdaaHack, on 12/14/2007, -8/+3Another blog reposting website content :|
Actual Link to info: http://www.amazon.com/gp/browse.html?node=34233501 ... - inactive, on 12/14/2007, -7/+2Grrrr...! Dead links make me want to beat my wife! So do cold days and the color orange!
brb... - JohnnyRad, on 12/14/2007, -6/+1if kevin rose dugg it, well i guess i have to also.
- inactive, on 12/14/2007, -8/+2It's not open source.
No thanks to that Amazon DB with a built-in function to pipe my personal data directly to the government. - Godlike, on 12/14/2007, -9/+1Already busted. Your link is fail.
- Godlike, on 12/14/2007, -12/+2I hope that you end up in a car fire that gives you aids and causes you to die of cancer.
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